11/12/2023 - 09:42
Roi Calviño from A Coruña, a prophet in his own land in the PROSEGUR Grand Prix
The PROSEGUR Grand Prix brought the curtain down on the CSI1* A Coruña program and it did so with the triumph of a local rider. Roi Calviño was the brilliant winner with Enjoy.
The class was contested by 15 riders and only four got the passport to the Jump Off. On the way, both with a knockdown, the two theoretical favorites, according to their evolution in the two previous days, were left behind: Javier López Fraga with “Tik Tak de Pravia” and Jose Fumero with “Figuier du Roc”. The Canary Islander thus lost the opportunity to achieve a historic hat-trick, having to settle for fifth place.
Three Spanish representatives, Leticia Riva, Roi Calviño and Esther Barroso, and a Portuguese rider, Mafalda Costa, qualified for the barrage. The young Lusitanian rider was left out of any option to win by committing a knockdown at the back of Porsche with the sorrel “Oscar CG”, while Esther Barroso from Madrid and “Baraka Louvo” repeated the zero, but were more than 2 seconds behind the times set by Leticia Riva with “Cadum de Champloue” and by Roi Calviño with the expert “Enjoy”, being in the end third.
Leticia Riva opened the tiebreaker with her mare daughter of “Diamant de Semilly” and with a time of 30'08 she set the bar very high, forcing Roi to do her ride under 30 seconds to win. And the rider from Abegondo accepted the challenge from the start line, with pace and stepping on compromising terrain, especially in the last two laps, to a vertical left hand and then right hand, to the double vertical-bottom that opened the final line to the PROSEGUR bottom that closed the layout.
Roi Calviño and “Enjoy” did the rest in their final gallop, to be the only ones able to complete the course in less than 30 seconds and thus become the winners of the PROSEGUR Grand Prix, whose trophy was presented to the rider from A Coruña by José Santos, Director of the Northern Area of Prosegur. Finally, after several editions being very close, Roi Calviño managed to win a Grand Prix in Casas Novas.
Three Spanish representatives, Leticia Riva, Roi Calviño and Esther Barroso, and a Portuguese rider, Mafalda Costa, qualified for the barrage. The young Lusitanian rider was left out of any option to win by committing a knockdown at the back of Porsche with the sorrel “Oscar CG”, while Esther Barroso from Madrid and “Baraka Louvo” repeated the zero, but were more than 2 seconds behind the times set by Leticia Riva with “Cadum de Champloue” and by Roi Calviño with the expert “Enjoy”, being in the end third.
Leticia Riva opened the tiebreaker with her mare daughter of “Diamant de Semilly” and with a time of 30'08 she set the bar very high, forcing Roi to do her ride under 30 seconds to win. And the rider from Abegondo accepted the challenge from the start line, with pace and stepping on compromising terrain, especially in the last two laps, to a vertical left hand and then right hand, to the double vertical-bottom that opened the final line to the PROSEGUR bottom that closed the layout.
Roi Calviño and “Enjoy” did the rest in their final gallop, to be the only ones able to complete the course in less than 30 seconds and thus become the winners of the PROSEGUR Grand Prix, whose trophy was presented to the rider from A Coruña by José Santos, Director of the Northern Area of Prosegur. Finally, after several editions being very close, Roi Calviño managed to win a Grand Prix in Casas Novas.
